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ferg
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| ebichu wrote: | | Solved it. I had a gedit.desktop and a gedit1.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/. I deleted them, logged out and back in, and the "Accessories --> Text Editor" menu entry came back. |
Cool. That helped me. I've had quite a few missing items in my menus. I found that a lot of these had multiple files in ~/.local/share.applications. Deleting these restored the menu items!
Nice!
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ferg
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| ferg wrote: | | ebichu wrote: | | Solved it. I had a gedit.desktop and a gedit1.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/. I deleted them, logged out and back in, and the "Accessories --> Text Editor" menu entry came back. |
Cool. That helped me. I've had quite a few missing items in my menus. I found that a lot of these had multiple files in ~/.local/share.applications. Deleting these restored the menu items!
Nice!
Cheers
ferg |
BTW I should add that logging out is not necessary. The menus must be dynamically changed, as removing a dodgy file allows the real menu item to be shown.
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teh_drizzle
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| I can't wait ><! |
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meron
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| The newsletter talks about Gnome 2.16 going stable soon. Great job! and big thanks to the Gentoo/gnome-team. |
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elmie
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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well I did finally got Beryl + nvidia + Gnome 2.16.x and Kde 3.5.5 all working..
I must admit, I wasnt expecting much. but having played with it for sometime now,
I'm liking it very much. 
so final words, Gnome + Beryl = Uberlicious!!! |
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thomasvk
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Wohoo a new problem! Always a lot of fun!
When I watch a film with xine every so often the screen darkens and then locks. However I do have the xine option enabled to get rid of the screensaver and it doesn't work. Any suggestions...? |
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whiskas
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you using gnome-screensaver? If I'm not mistaking, xine knows only about xscreensaver, so that might be the problem. |
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Doogman
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| If you use Totem with the Xine backend you shouldn't trip gnome-screensaver. |
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thomasvk
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I indeed use gnome-screensaver, but I use it with xine-ui. From what I know xine sends a 'Scroll Lock' every so often to somewhere to block the screensaver, so if I'm not mistaken the type of screensaver shouldn't really bother. At any rate I can just try it... is there a way to replace gnome-screensaver, or can I just emerge -C 'gnome-screensaver && emerge xscreensaver'?
Thanks for the suggestions. |
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kurtg
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I've had problems w/ my clock applet ever since I installed Gnome 2.16. My /etc/conf.d/clock has:
And my time zone is New York: | Quote: |
# diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York |
and date has UTC time:
| Quote: | # date
Sun Dec 3 20:17:00 GMT 2006 |
But my clock applet shows:
So it isn't picking up the timezone. If I change my timezone in the clock applet, it changes my system clock in addition to changing the timezone. This would be fine if it translated it to UTC, but it seems to change it to localtime so my system time is way off.
In the Clock preferences, I don't have UTC checked. However, toggling this has no effect at all.
Evolution however is working fine. It correctly determines the right time in my calendar and pops up meeting notices at the correct time.
I'm thinking this is a bug in the Clock applet itself. Any ideas?
--Kurt |
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bertaboy
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| kurtg wrote: | I've had problems w/ my clock applet ever since I installed Gnome 2.16. My /etc/conf.d/clock has:
And my time zone is New York: | Quote: |
# diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York |
and date has UTC time:
| Quote: | # date
Sun Dec 3 20:17:00 GMT 2006 |
But my clock applet shows:
So it isn't picking up the timezone. If I change my timezone in the clock applet, it changes my system clock in addition to changing the timezone. This would be fine if it translated it to UTC, but it seems to change it to localtime so my system time is way off.
In the Clock preferences, I don't have UTC checked. However, toggling this has no effect at all.
Evolution however is working fine. It correctly determines the right time in my calendar and pops up meeting notices at the correct time.
I'm thinking this is a bug in the Clock applet itself. Any ideas?
--Kurt |
Why not change CLOCK="UTC" to CLOCK="local"? I mean, UTC is to set it for GMT, whereas local is to use the local profile.... |
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FloppyMaster0
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| kurtg wrote: | I've had problems w/ my clock applet ever since I installed Gnome 2.16. My /etc/conf.d/clock has:
And my time zone is New York: | Quote: |
# diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York |
and date has UTC time:
| Quote: | # date
Sun Dec 3 20:17:00 GMT 2006 |
But my clock applet shows:
So it isn't picking up the timezone. If I change my timezone in the clock applet, it changes my system clock in addition to changing the timezone. This would be fine if it translated it to UTC, but it seems to change it to localtime so my system time is way off.
In the Clock preferences, I don't have UTC checked. However, toggling this has no effect at all.
Evolution however is working fine. It correctly determines the right time in my calendar and pops up meeting notices at the correct time.
I'm thinking this is a bug in the Clock applet itself. Any ideas?
--Kurt |
If date on the command line is giving you a date in GMT, then one of 2 things must be true:
1. /etc/localtime is a zone file for GMT
2. The TZ environment variable is set to a GMT zone file
Since we know 1 is not true, I would suggest you check and see what your TZ environment variable is set to. |
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hoschi
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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UTC = UNIX/LINUX
Local = UNIX/LINUX and sth. bitching like Windows...
The timezone tells your box to calculate the correct time for you, if the correct UTC-Time is saved in the BIOS.
The LOCAL-VAR is only necessary if there is also a stupid Windows installed...
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Weedman
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm.
Installed Gnome 2.16 today. Not bad.
2 questions though.
1. Will the screensavers that appear in the Xscreensaver config window eventually appear in the Gnome equivalent? My fav screensaver, phosphor, doesn't appear in the config window for gnome-screensaver, neither does most if not all of the screensavers available on my system.
2. My clock applet does not work at all after upgrading to 2.16. It spits out an error message like this:
| Quote: | | The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". |
Not to mention, that error dialog seems to reproduce every 2 seconds or something, cause when I go to cancel, there is about 10 windows open, when there once was 1.
Gnome 2.16 seems real nice. This goes nicely with my Xfce 4.4rc2 setup as well.
BTW, did anybody notice that in one of the latest updates (for /etc/rc.conf), that it actually removes the display manager option?
Does anybody know what the option is? I need to put it back in the file, so that GDM will execute instead of XDM.
Thanks,
weed
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kurtg
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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1. /etc/localtime is a zone file for GMT
2. The TZ environment variable is set to a GMT zone file |
Brilliant! I changed the TZ entry in my "/etc/profile.env" file to:
| Quote: | | export TZ='EST5EDT' |
And my clock applet is working correctly again.
Very strange that it doesn't use the correct entry in the /etc/localtime, and that wrongly changes my system time when I change the time zone. Still a bug in my humble opinion.
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BrummieJim
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The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". |
I think I had this going to 2.14. i just remerged gnome applets I think.
To Weedman
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1. Will the screensavers that appear in the Xscreensaver config window eventually appear in the Gnome equivalent? My fav screensaver, phosphor, doesn't appear in the config window for gnome-screensaver, neither does most if not all of the screensavers available on my system. |
The best thing you can do is just ditch Gnome Screensaver, it's the most laughable piece of junk I've seen in ages. There's a thread on the site which deals with it. I'd love to see a disable and return to Xscreensaver option. If you've got 3-d drivers installed, emerge rss-screensavers and select skyrocket, it's cool as. |
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ferg
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| BrummieJim wrote: | | If you've got 3-d drivers installed, emerge rss-screensavers and select skyrocket, it's cool as. |
Is that rss-glx?
If so emerging now and I'll be giving it a go!
I use the OSX rss screensaver with BBC news. Eyecandy and useful to boot. I hope this is similar!
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Ferg
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Dun
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| Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Weedman wrote: |
2. My clock applet does not work at all after upgrading to 2.16. It spits out an error message like this:
| Quote: | | The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". |
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Happened also to me. Solved erasing all gconf's gnome's conf from my homedir. |
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Weedman
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| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:31 am Post subject: |
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I solved my clock problem.
It turns out that the clock applet links against libraries for Evolution-data-server. A few 'ln -s's fixed that up.
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The best thing you can do is just ditch Gnome Screensaver, it's the most laughable piece of junk I've seen in ages. There's a thread on the site which deals with it. I'd love to see a disable and return to Xscreensaver option. |
A couldn't agree more, after having my own look at it. However, lets say in the future that there is a dependancy somewhere in Gnome on gnome-screensaver. Logically, gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver will be eventually set to block each other, with xscreensaver possibly blocking gnome-power-management as well. What do we do then? Hope for gnome-screensaver to have been considerably improved by that time?
Though Xscreensaver may be a little tatty, it still does it's job nicely on my laptop and, as BrummieJim said, is years ahead of gnome-screensaver.
weed
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hoschi
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gnome-volume-manager won't mount my usb-mass-storage device, and nautilus doesn't show it but I can mount it via the shell
any idea?
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Sachankara
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| hoschi wrote: | gnome-volume-manager won't mount my usb-mass-storage device, and nautilus doesn't show it but I can mount it via the shell
any idea? |
1. Make sure you're in the plugdev group.
2. Make sure you've configured gnome-volume-manager correctly in gnome-volume-properties.
3. Make sure gnome-volume-manager is running.
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Kaste
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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I think it's just gone stable, Some 50 packages in the lineup for me. Don't know if that makes me happy  |
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bubbl07
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| Kaste wrote: | | I think it's just gone stable, Some 50 packages in the lineup for me. Don't know if that makes me happy |
Indeed, looks like it's just gone stable on x86: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Newest/x86
amd64 should be coming up soon, then.
/waits |
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hoschi
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Sachankara wrote: | | hoschi wrote: | gnome-volume-manager won't mount my usb-mass-storage device, and nautilus doesn't show it but I can mount it via the shell
any idea? |
1. Make sure you're in the plugdev group.
2. Make sure you've configured gnome-volume-manager correctly in gnome-volume-properties.
3. Make sure gnome-volume-manager is running.
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Yes. Yes. Yes.
Okay, next?
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